Category: Comments
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Mark Dixon has 380 reasons for universal personal identity
He counted the number of accounts he has on-line, and came up with 380. Somehow that number does not sound like his on-line experience is very pleasurable…
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Michael Parekh quotes Tom Friedman
Michael quotes from "The World is Flat" (a book that I still haven’t read but have heard Tom Friedman talk about) Tribal culture and thinking still dominate in many Arab countries, and the tribal mind-set is also anathema to collaboration. What is the motto of the tribalist? Me and my brother against my cousin; me,…
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Doc Searls: The word “retirement” creeps me out
…the word “retirement” creeps me out. It’s a relic of the Industrial Age I’ve devoted my life to ending.
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Scott Lemon thinks Identity is about “being the same as”
Picking up a post by Phil Windley, he says he likes dictionary.com’s definition of identity, which expresses “being the same as”. I very much agree. Accordingly, in mathematical terms, identity defined this way is a function, returning either a Yes or a No, on two arguments that are being compared. Now that’s a really simple…
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“PageRank is social software in a crude form”
… writes Ryan Tate. That’s what I’d call an interesting thought.